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Draft Resolutionl Urg- _ ing Compulsory Ser- Defence Minister says Canadians‘ ‘ Vice F01‘ AllFit Men , , _ And Women. Are Training for Offenszve.

(By Marshall Baton-ran, Canadian Press Staff Writer) -—'- I i“. sniffer; Report |ta|y Gets Free Hand I Wlth France

WINNI? bate on the Canadian Legion, B. we to the Canadian Legion

.0181“? .. pnvelltlon toduy that the Pfesenw y, Britain of the Canadian Corps ma; with their British COIIIYBdBB been u. definite factor in de- mmg l-lltler flrin attempting his m; threatened invasion. Co], Rslstons address was the will t- ot the opening business ‘Wyn of the Legion convention, pgmt in l’! years with some 1.000 ‘Qlgggles attending. "Under the plans we are work- )“ to,” he said, “the Canadian pmy in Brit-sin will have a larger rtion of armored troops than my grmy in the world. That isn't ‘ for defence-that is getting yudy for the attack, when the mm will get the full force of well d and well equipped Canadian , backed up by the spirit"- qmdl successfully stormed Vvlmy lldge a little over 25 years ago.

Now and Then

reaching Bernc said tonifh .

Plem Laval Vichgoch ef of gov- ernment to whom th Italy and Germany appear cooling fast, pre- B lv was told of the Nazi stand in Paris conferences today

“Vichy can not hope for concess-

both are~to ether." This was coup- led with re erences to "the stagna- tion" in German-French relations and criticisms of Laval.

Japanese Admit Loss Of Liner

TOKYO (From Japanese Broad- casts). May 25—(AP)—The sinking nese liner Nagasaki in the seizure

Harrison at the outbreak of the Pa-

. col. Halston compared the Can- jllan war effort now With that 01 hlirst Great War. Compared to jrilny‘ navy, Canada now has a may of more than 30.000 officers ‘Yuulmen and more than 350 craft. ‘ ‘d: plans for this year will bring metal up to well over 40,000 of- < and men and well over 400 fling,” "l tl ere was no Canadian i- .___-_-_-_

Vtoontlnued on page 0, Col 4) ciflc war, and thehariklri death = i?-—-——— .. - 0f her captain, Gen, zabum gun,

were announced today. An announcement said.

asaki Mal-u, 5. the Nag‘

268 tons, went down May l3 near Nagasaki after hitting 8- flpanesc mine- Thlrtecn persons were killed and 28 were missing, it was said.

The Tokyo radio said Captain Suga. 50, one of the ranking cap- tains of the Japanese merchant ms- rlne, killed himself in the old Ja - anese fashion of disembowelment in the Nagasaki offices of the Nippon Yusen Keisha, owners of the vessel. He was said to have taken the re- sponsibility for the loss of the ship, but the radio declared that prompt

measules take b th tain k t down the nunrlbel? of evltéatllns. en

Labor Still Strong for Churchill

LONDON, May 25—(AP)-I..ed by two cabinet ministers, delegates to the Labor arty‘s annual conference today crus led by a vote of more than 14 to l the first attempted le- belllon against continued labor par- ticl tion in Prime Minister Chur- chi 's wartime national govern-

ment. The actual vote was 2,319,000 to

The test came on an amendment to withhold the conference's en- dorsement of the role Labor mem- bers are playing in the government. Some observers predicted that the Labor party ultimately would

lllficials Will lisit Ch’Town.

UITAWA, May M —(CP) -Flve lips of officials will leave dur- l-he next two days to instruct ‘regional selective service officers in the 115 offices of the urlemp-oy- .nlent insurance commission Jluougllout Canada in their new »,duties under the man w»; mobili- ntlon program, the office of direc- tor of public information, G. H. lash, announced tonight. _RS]li‘C.§fllili'lg national selective ' ITVlCl‘, the civil service commission 1nd the unemployment insurance Jllmmission, one group wi‘l go to each of the five regions. with au- flhorlty lo strengthen local staffs ll ncceavly." .- Fm Party to leave Ottawa will , visit the Maritime region. It wll be composed of I... Austin Wright, lelectlve service; W. K. Rutherford. unemployment insurance commis- llvn and L. W. Moffltt, civil ser- l vice ccnlmisslon. They will visit t Sent John, N. B" Hrfifax and ., Charlottetown. making trips '00 all offices lil those areas,

t Cooling Events

mp0.- Notices In this I cont: Der word

"Sllow-Brsdalbarle Tuesday.

tau m- column

o i 54341’ gen further than JJB-Igleffelgbliéi; in

G OVCITIXIICXI Bil O BII : _""“m‘°°°“' w*d“°‘§f{,-_m the gliXNIIt political truce in order ' to give active organizational aid to

"Show Crapaud, Thursdays-w” §.‘§n¢fr§“°¢§§lli‘lii§ies lfsmulreféiilii .. ' bv independents. So ear three Conservi-

‘ _'-' ‘ r thl smug-cm“ °°“- Pm"?- "PBP" tlves if}... lbs b wlections to In- ' 5- - - dependents while aborltcs were ob- serving the truce and remaining

aloof. Labor's executive committee already has announced. however. its determination th Inde nd- C“.u€°¥.°ll'l.°“‘. "$.30 “wlilflfi ou op on

established parties are preoccupied with winning the war.

The attack ophondvocatel of with-

"Tllkies m. Stewart. Saturday. s-ae-sl.

lm of music. etc. danoo "to. Lorne Valley lml, u’? at.‘

“That lievlng that the voluntary system of recruiting to be unfair, coercive and wasteful in money and time, calls upon the government of Can-

gent gasoline quo ltimes, other later

leader Hanson in Commons

Th. was Eldlble. It had been suflfist

on

E. s. L. total war resolution, de- manding the federal government to enact necessary measures to place Canada on a total war footing, fall- ed to get approval at the bi-annual convention here today “because it does not go far enough."

Delegates referred it back to

committee with an amendment from Lt.-Col Alan Cockeram, ggronw’ nlsmllfil z u. a l vernme w ou fur er e ay hBEPg-E» M“ milhm-Geflflflfll’ to institute compulsory national I: he wlliillily $196 t0 decide hOW service for all fit men and women rulers“? dimes gflrlfrpressln! WT‘ on s. selective draft system. s um“ “Eek twin“ Col. Cookers-m. former Conserva- tive member York South, Ont., said the present army expects leadership. Hon. J. L. Ralston, Minister of National De- _ fence, has stressed the “great need Berlin dispatches said plainly that gémmbhllower" and “the Canadian on. . . ions from Rome through Berlin for live up to what is expected of it."

0f

the Dominion

of Parliament for

should not fall to

Unfair, Coercive

His amendment states:

this convention. . .be-

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News Briefs

MEXICO CITY, May 25- (AIfl-Prcsident Manuel Avila Camacho led Mexico step near- er war against the Axis powers today with a. call to Congress to meet in extraordinary ses- sion and align the nation as a full-fledged belligerent at tho side of the United Nations.

AN EAST COAST CANADIAN

PORT, May 25—(CP)- All allied merchant ship of medium size has run aground on the near this port in heavy weather. Tugs were her tonight, but she was reported leaki she mght be a total loss.

rocky coast attempting to refloat

badly, and it was feared

WASHINGTON, May 25 — fAPl-The United States navy department announced today the torpedolng and sinking of three merchant vessels “several weeks ago in the Caribbean area". Survivors have been landed at an east coast port.

OTTAWA, May 25—(CP)—Trede

Minister MacKinnon tonight con- firmed an announcement made by Premier Thane A. Campbell Prince Edward Island that a steam- ship servlce will be opened between Prince Edward Island and New- foundland next month.

No Immediate Change In Gas Ration Quotas

of

OTTAWA. May 25—(CP)-Un-

til additional supplies become a- vailable it appears little can be done to change the present-strin- tes in the Mer- it

now two-flrhs of that of

rovinoes, Munitions Min-

own told conservative House House

e purpose of gasoline rationing to divide supplies as fail-l as ra-

Canadian Legion _Debates Selective Service i

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War Situation Last Night

(By KIRK! L. SIMPSON, Associated Press War Analyst) Conflicting reports from the Kharkov front in Russia throw little

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light on the probable d or outcome of the first pitched battle of the summer polgn; but they do reveal that for once the Russians are on something like even terms with their Nazi foes in modern war equipment.

The size of the armies involved can only be conjectured from the fact that an irregular fighting front more than 2.00 miles long appears to be aflsme with attack and counter-attack. That means troops by the hundred thousand on both sides- ' _

a e a o c e

More than two weeks have elapsed since Marshal Tmoshenko seiz- ed the initiative and struck out to block an impending German offen- sive. In that time, there has been no intimation that the Nazis have succeeded in gaining control of tho air or breaking armored panzer col- umns loose to Iuuge deep behind Russian lines.

Lacking those two prime factors, which have figured in every pre- l-‘ldlh! German victory in Russia, the battle of Kharkov- may go down in history as the turning point in the war. Even Russian failure to take Kharkov or to break through to the Dnleper crossings and undermine the whole German southern flank could not be set down as a defeat if it delayed Hitler's promised tel- offensive.

I U I O I

If Timoshenko has succeeded in cking into the blazing struggle any substantial portion oi’ Nazi reserves behind the Ukraine front um.‘ worn them down by losses in men and equipment to the extent. Russ- ian official accounts report, he has already seriously short-circuited the Hitler offensive schedule.

Kerch I‘ ' ' ‘ I o, the r h "an, - A .1 in German hands. Heavy Red losses there are highly probable. Unless the Nazis can soon clinch an even greater victory in the Kharkov fight, however, and emerge from that conflict in shape to exploit it promptly, the value of the KCIUh'ul'ldg.Bhfl1‘d to ‘them will be doubtful.

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It has seemed certain since Timoshcnklfs broad strategy became clear with the Rod attack at Kharkov that he regarded the Ketch front as wholly secondary. I-Ie had opportunity to mass men and equipment there in sufficient strength to challenge the foe successfully had he so desired; but elected to make Kerch merely a holding operation Whllg he conccntr ted for a counter smash at Kharkov.

Kerch Peninsula in Russian hands was obviously only an outpost position covering the far better defensive terrain that Kerch Strait and tho area east of it afford. If its Ioss has cost the Nazis as heavily as indicated, it served its purpose weiL

U I I I I Q

The cumulative attrition of Kerch and Kharkov on Nazi striking power is yet to be measured by events. If it. has been any where near as great as Russian observers claim, in their tales of German tanks shut- tered by the hundred and Nazi planes shot down and bombed on the ground, the battle of Kharkov must. be regarded as a Russian victory regardless of the status of the city itself or Russian failure to reach the Dnieper crossings immediately.

Chinese Win In Chekiarlg Prov.

Drive back 10,000.Iaps in assault‘ on Kinhwa, A

— (By Spencer Moosa, Associated Press Staff Writer)

CHUNGKING, May 26-(Tuesday)-(AP)—Ten-tllous- and Japanese attempted to storm Kinhwa, important mili- tary centre in the east coast province of Chekiang, after a furious artillery barrage yesterday but stubborn Chinese machine-gunners met them at the walls of the city, killed 1,000 and forced the rest to retire, a central news dispatch said today.

The battle was described as the “first major Chinese victory since the start of the fighting" in the vital Che- kiung province. -

The high command said Klnhwa was being attacked from all SlGCS but the southwest, but declared the town still was in Chinese hands. and that a Japanese column which had seized Kienteh, 2a miles to tile

north, had failed in an attempt to cross the Cilientsng River.

500 Japs Drowned

Missing Airmen Safe After Trek

KIRKLAND LAKE, Ollh, May 25 —(CP)—Two Royal Canadian Air Force fliers, nlisslng .11 a. flight. from Ottawa to Winnipeg, repart- ed their safety frcm a hydro patrol station l’! miles west of here today

More than 500 Japanese were drowned, the communique said and Chinese dispatches said the column

in its first attack north of Kienteh muwi"? I d5Y'°~“d'“'4“*l4 m"

_ through bushland after thel as‘? ‘ltcueelalréwrauted and 2,000 casual bomber cramflt _ l‘ J, we“ m; we" lgporwd They were Flt. Sgt. Peter Kort-

land of Westmouzlt, Que, and

umns th i nort east and sou east of K uhwa. Hales o! “or. om

while another force reached a point 10° N9-

neal- when. only l2 miles north- "We are recline fine but still a west of the city. hit. and neither of us has a Dgclgflng me J3, M” scratch," said Flt. 8st. Kertland in

had left.

5.000 dead on Che ang battlefields

in l0 days, the high command sax.

was ‘ log “magnetlc" war-

fare and. that the main battle now

was beginning with the Japanese lines far drawn out.

Guorilla Was-hr! It told of spreads; guerills war-

a telephone interview from the pa- trol station. '

Kertlanti said tion on the win motored Haul den the

4:45 pm. EOiDII‘.

heavy foe forma-

gs of the two- bom-ber forced in a swamp at

Saturday.

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shcool where officers and N.C.O.'s

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azis Lnh Mssive Surprise Drive

Heavy Attack Develops South 0f Kharkov

150 Tanks spearhead smash under umbrella of Nazi Planes; Ferocity of fighting mounts hourly.

Fashion Rules To Be Tighter Officials Say

OTTAWA, May 25—-(CP-—War- time clothing restrictions which al- ready have mode an impact on summer fashions will be tightened up further, Wartime Prices and Trade Baord officials said today.

Regulations effective June 15 dir- ect manufacturers’ shears slice molgefdeciplly into tltl: Cglllllnlglflglilfi 115C OI‘ 3 gurmcn (LII B. D56 w manufactured after that date. MOSCOW, M337 26f (1ve§<!=1Y)—(-4P)—The German.

After whorl-m: the 10m; list 0f have launched a massive surprise attack on the Izyuln-

regulations designed m conserve Barvenkova front south of Kharkov with 150 tanks spear-

clothing materials

is to lighter, more simple raiment. Effect 0f Orders

The effect of existing orders

summer fashions may be summar- silk' and cot- mm!‘

izcd thust— l. There is no more

ton and wool are not so plentiful;

2. There are no more imported

straw hats;

3. There is no rubber for corsets

or girdles ancl- there will be no more rubber bathing caps;

4, The rainy day will serve to re- mind Canadians that umbrellas are fewer and if they have to buv new rubbers they will obtain them in black only"

5. Luxuries like frilly underwear and lounging pyjamas are finished.

One of" d

with clothes regularations in other

parts of the commonwealth to show that Canadians are not as badly off as they might think.

With a grim smile he pointed to

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More Britons Arrive llere For Training

(Bv The Canadian Press) Sheila MacDonald, daughter of the lute British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald and Ben Trav- ers. English dramatist and novelist, now a. squadron leader in the Royal Air Force, have arrived in Canada with hundreds of young Britons of the RAJ‘. who will receive air training in the Dominion, Canadian.

British and Polish officers of the R..A.F.. and R.C.AJI~‘.. and merchant seamen.

MASS MacDonald has been in England observing conditions there and plans to go on a lecture tour of Canada.

Sqdn-Ldr, ‘Prayers is a veteran of the Royal Naval Air service and the RAF. in the First Great War. He is en route to Washington on a mission from the London Bureau of Information, but would say nothing of‘ his plans. He hold the Air Force Cross and other decorations.

A Canadian tank expert with the rank of brlgadier was among the arrivals. He asked that his name be withheld.

Higher Income Taxes Hinted?

UITAWA, May 25-(0?) -some listeners in tile House of Commons galleries today wondered whether heavier income taxes were fore- shadowed by a remark made by Finance Minister llslcy during dis- cussion of the bill authorizing

ch agreements with the provinces on a

t xation field division.

Mr. Ilsley was answering a. ques- tion as to the value of having the provinces surrender to the Domin- ion the income and corporation tax fields forduratlon of the war. H1 cannot put any dollar value 0n it." Ml‘. Ilsley said.

"The Dominion is now free to increase its income tax to the level which the people should properly be asked to bear.

"That may be of very substantial benefit to the Dominion as the war years go on.

"In fact that has been regarded as virtually essential if the Do- minion Government is to finance

iency and equity." Less Speed, Less Heart Ailments

‘TORONTO. May 26-40?) Wuthne rationing, priorities and price freezing will force s. return to a slower, simpler life and "like- ly 011i. pressure, leading

heart diocese and deaf-h

day.

"Reduction oi’ luxuries mods of living will dens of wa

OsteoPIi-hio 8081311“.

board officials commented that the general trend

the frequency of lllgh biood- other after middle 08%." Di‘. Ralph II‘. Lind- berg of Qlicago loid members of the Ontario Academy of Osteopathy in the annual convention here to-

in our serve to increase .. i , . -_ ghriilgiggicg: “mg? 0.; 9:35:13 %£;_ ggfkégeiumeetllu. today ulldcr (‘llflll me." Mid DY- 5nd- Marltime problems which . ‘WNW! 0f Bi-fllff 0i the G11- brought up at subsequent sessions of

heading the assault under an umbrella of Nazi

frontline dispatches reported The Germans also

on battle and the ferocity of the declared holding steadfastly to their posi-

Red armies were

On the Russian right and men were reported slowly itself but with his forces on Barvenkova the whole of the ance.

hurled heavy artillery

moving

planes, early today.